Clothes-line.



UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

FRANK S. BROWN, OF CHELSEA, INDIAN TERRITORY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TO THOMAS E. MULVIHILL AND ERNEST O. DODGE,

OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

CLOTH ES-LINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 718,086, dated January 13, 1903.

Application filed September 8,1902. Serial N0- 122,54-.6. (N0 model.)

To all whont it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK S. BROWN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chelsea, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Clothes-Lines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view showing a portion of a clothes-line constructed in accordance with the present invention; and Fig. 2 is an elevation showing the inner side of one-half of one of the article-attaching members, the line being shown as out.

My invention relates to improvements in clothes-lines and the like, my object being to provide a clothes-line with clothes-supporting parts attached thereto, whereby the use of clothes-pins or the like can be dispensed with. e

To these ends and also to improve generally upon devices of the character indicated my invention consists in the various matters hereinafter described and claimed.

It is manifest that the present invention is applicable not only to lines for supporting clothes to dry, but also to lines for supporting clothes and other articles for the purposes of display, 850.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings, 1 represents a clothes-line, and 2 represents an article-supporting member secured to the said line. These article-supporting members are here shown as made of resilient wire, which is bent at substantially its central portion and carried backwardly therefrom to produce substantially parallel clamping portions 3, the wire being bent backwardly and outwardly from each of these clamping portions to produce attaching-arms 4, a substantially V-shaped opening 5 being left between the said arms and leading to the space between the clamping portions 3. The

this 5th day of September, 1902.

arms 4 are inserted between strands of the clothes-line and then bent about the said line, as shown at 6, whereby each articlesupporting member is firmly fastened upon the line.

The clothes-line can be of wire, hemp, or any other suitable material.

\Vhen a line constructed in accordance with the present invention is strung, the use of clothes-pins and the like becomes entirely unnecessary, the user having only to attach the articles to be hung upon the line to the article-supporting members by inserting a suitable portion, as a corner, of the article in the V-shaped opening 5 and then pulling such portion between the clamping portions 3. Preferably the said article supporting members are made of galvanized wire in order to prevent rusting.

I am aware that many minor changes in the construction, arrangement, and combination of the several parts of my device can be made and substituted for those herein shown and described'without in the least departing from the nature and principle of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is V The combination with a clothes-line, of article-supporting members attached thereto, said article supporting members comprising a resilient wire bent to produce clamping portions, the wire extending outwardly and baokwardly from said clamping portions to produce attaching-arms, said attachingarms having their free ends inserted between the strands of the clothes-line and wound about said line; substantially asdescribed.

In testimony whereof Ihereunto affix-my signature, in the presence of two witnesses,

FRANK S."BROWN." Witnesses:

GALEs R. MOORE, GEORGE BAKEWELL. 

